Reconstruction
Western Expansion
Industrial America
1920's/1930s
Urbanization/ Progressive Era
Progressive Era
Imperialism
WWI
100
Ended Slavery in the U.S. making it illegal to own another human being. (Hint: Which amendment?)
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
Promised settlers 160 acres for free if they farmed it for five years.
What is The Homestead Act?
100
Located in New York Harbor, it was the main point of entry into the U.S. for immigrants (mainly from Europe) from 1892 to 1954.
What is Ellis Island?
100
The exact year the stock market crashed, marking the beginning of the Great Depression.
1929
100
Supreme Court case which declared "separate but equal" to be constitutional. Led to legal segregation in the South.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were passed by Congress after President Roosevelt read_________ by ________
What is THE JUNGLE by UPTON SINCLAIR?
100
American naval vessel that was sunk by the Spanish in Havana Harbor Cuba; started the Spanish American War.
What is USS Maine?
100
The two alliances to start WWI.
What is the Central Powers, (Germany and Austria-Hungary, joined by Ottoman Turkey) and Allied Powers, (Britain, France, Russia and later Italy)?
200
The ______________ __________plan wanted to give freed slaves homesteads, economic independence, and the right to vote. (Hint: This plan wanted to punish the South.)
Who were the Radical Republicans?
200
Changed life on the Great Plains by fencing off land which impacted the nomadic life of the Plains Indians.
What is Barbed Wire?
200
Reduced the cost of making steel by more than 80% while also making it stronger and more durable.
What is Bessemer Process?
200
This term refers to the shantytowns that emerged during the Great Depression, named after the president blamed for the crisis.
Hoovervilles
200
One big difference between the "Old Immigrants" and "New Immigrants" is that the New Immigrants ______________
What is arrived mainly from Southern (Italy) and Eastern Europe?
200
Journalists, photographers and authors who published their work in order to raise awareness of social issues and injustices.
What is a muckraker?
200
A technique for selling more newspapers by sensationalizing and distorting the facts in stories written.
What is Yellow Journalism?
200
A policy of not choosing sides in a conflict; it was the reason the U.S. was slow to enter World War I.
What is neutrality?
300
All people born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens; all citizens have equal protection under the law. (Hint: Which amendment?)
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
Crazy Horse fought General Custer killing him and 300 soldiers. It was one of the last Native American victories over U.S. troops.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
300
Thomas Edison invented ________
George Pullman invented _____
What is Light Bulb?
What is Sleeping Car?
300
The New Deal program that provided retirement pensions and unemployment insurance.
Social Security
300
The belief that native-born Americans were superior to others and that immigrants and their diverse cultural influences were undesirable.
What is Nativism?
300
This amendment provided for the direct election of Senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
300
Spanish Ambassador wrote that the President of the United States was ,"weak" indicating that the Spanish were not being truthful with Cuba of the U.S.
What is The De Lome Letter?
300
A coded message sent by the German Foreign Minister to Mexico proposing a military alliance against the U.S.
What is the Zimmerman Note, (Telegram).
400
A welfare agency created to provide aid, school, healthcare, and clothing to poor whites and newly freed slaves
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
Threatened the survival of Indian culture.
A law that let the federal government divide up reservations (land that belonged to Native American tribes), and give pieces of them to individual Native Americans instead.
What is the Dawes Act?
400
A Captain of Industry who wrote the book, "The Gospel of Wealth" and made his fortune in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
A severe drought and poor farming practices led to this environmental disaster that devastated farmers in the 1930s.
Dust Bowl
400
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
Taken together, these increased the power of voters in the political process.
What is initiative, recall, and referendum?
400
Built to shorten the distance that ships had to travel to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
400
The widespread migration of millions of African Americans from the South to the North and West during the 20th century.
What is the Great Migration?
500
Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War intended to deny former slaves their full civil rights.
What are Black Codes?
500
The last major conflict between the U.S. Army and Native Americans in which an overwhelming force of U.S. soldiers killed over 200 men, women, and children of the Lakota Indians. (Hint: Ghost Dance)
What is Wounded Knee?
500
Banned this group of laborers from immigrating to the U.S. for ten years because their efforts to build the railroad in the West created anger in white laborers.
What led to the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
The government agency created by FDR to regulate the stock market and prevent future crashes.
SEC
500
An economic philosophy that the government should not interfere in the free market (Hint: "hands off")
What is Laissez-faire?
500
A civil rights group founded in 1909 to work to end racial discrimination.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
500
A treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that gave the U.S. increased control over the island in order to protect U.S. interests in the Caribbean.
What is the Platt Amendment?
500
Brought an end to WWI.
Imposed harsh penalties on Germany including losing much of its territory, signing a War Guilt Clause and required to pay large repartations.
Included the League of Nations.
What is The Treaty of Versailles?
600
What did Plessy v. Ferguson establish
Separate but equal segregation
600
Transported raw materials used in industrial production, such as coal and iron ore
Were also one of the largest consumers of raw materials in their own
Connected the East Coast with the West Coast
What is the railroad industry?
600
This California based immigration center processed immigrants arriving mainly from Asia.
What is Angel Island?
600
The amendment that repealed Prohibition in 1933.
21st Amendment
600
A deadly disaster in a New York City sweatshop that started a national movement to pass laws providing safety and fire codes in factories.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
600
Laws in the South based on race. They enforced segregation between white people and black people in public places such as schools.
What are Jim Crow laws?
600
A foreign policy statement by Teddy Roosevelt in 1904 that claimed the right of the United States to intervene in the domestic affairs of Western Hemisphere nations to maintain stability.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
600
An international peacekeeping organization that was part of President Wilson Fourteen Points.
It would be rejected by the U.S. Senate
What is The League of Nations?
